Hohenstein Castle (Dietingen)

Hohenstein Castle
Wall remains of Hohenstein Castle
Alternative name (s):	Alt-Hohenstein
Creation time :	before 1100
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Remnants of the wall
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Dietingen - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location	48 ° 12 '25.2 "  N , 8 ° 36' 33.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '25.2 "  N , 8 ° 36' 33.5"  E
Height:	578.3  m above sea level NN

The Burg Hohenstein , including Alt-Hohenstein called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle at 578.3  m above sea level. NN and one of the oldest castle complexes on the upper Neckar . It is located east of the municipality of Villingendorf in the Rottweil district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle, founded by the noble lords of Urslingen , was first mentioned in a document before 1100 . During the 13th century it came to the Lords of Zimmer . Since these stood on the side of the Württemberg people during the Imperial War of the House of Württemberg against several imperial cities between 1311 and 1312, Hohenstein Castle was attacked and destroyed by the imperial city of Rottweil in 1312 .

The ruins and the associated estate were owned by the von Reute family in the middle of the 14th century; they pledged the estate in 1361 to the von Neuneck family, who were also based on the Neckarburg to the south . In 1411 it went to the Counts of Sulz , and in 1456 to the Lords of Zimmer. From 1513, the farm and the town of Dietingen came from the von Zimmer to the imperial city of Rottweil. After the imperial city, the Rottweiler Pürschvogt Strehmayer was the owner of the estate, from which the castle ruins and the estate were transferred to the Counts of Bissingen-Nippenburg .

Only a piece of wall and foundation walls have been preserved from the former castle complex . Hohenstein Castle , built in 1923 by the Counts of Bissingen-Nippenburg, is located on the plateau to the northeast .

literature

• Wolfgang Willig: Landadel palaces in Baden-Württemberg - A cultural-historical search for traces . Self-published by Willig, Balingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813887-0-1 , pp. 93-94.
• Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the northern Black Forest - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1601-0 , pp. 136-137.
• Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .

Web links

• Entry on Hohenstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the northern Black Forest - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights , p. 136 f.